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Chin-Kuki-Zo People Are NOT Migrants
Indigenous Portal | Dr. L. Lam Khan Piang | Friday, 19 August 2011
The Zo people are identified with various names such as Kuki, Chin, shendu, khongsai, etc. by the anthropologists, ethnographers and colonial administrators. However, some of them mention that Zo is the name by which they call themselves. So it is imperative to employ the name Zo, as it has cultural implication and a tinge of primordial element, and to clear the confusion due to the various different names given by their neighbours from whom the colonial ethnographers and administrators picked up.
When the first Anglo-Burmese was concluded with the Treaty of Yandaboo in 1926, the British gained control over Assam and Manipur. By that time, the Zo country was neither part of Burma nor India. It was certainly not a part of Manipur. However, with the intervention of the British colonizers, the Zo country was segmented and part of it was integrated to Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Chittagong and Burma.
The historical process of the ethnification of the Zo people by boundary demarcation during the colonial regime is very complicated that even some writers made mistakes in their presentation of history. They expanded until they were stranded by other settlements. It is clear that the territory which they inhabit presently is what they inherit from their ancestors, from where their culture is evolving. The land where the Zo cultural practices and their festivals are evolving is called by the Zo people as Zogam.
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